Corpoetics reviewed, and other things

Corpoetics (our collection of found corporate poetry) has recently been reviewed in Sphinx, a magazine and website for independent poetry publishers and poets, run by HappenStance Press. You can read the whole thing here.

Over the past couple of years, I've been
trying to familiarise myself with the ins and outs of the UK poetry scene – the
magazines, the publishers, the events, the writers to watch, the writers you
should be embarrassed not to have heard of, the conflicting fashions and
schools – all that kind of thing. It's a long journey that leads you up
numerous cul-de-sacs. But one of the great highlights has been discovering HappenStance Press.

Like so much of the poetry scene, it's
fired less by economics and more by love of the art form and sheer generosity
of spirit. Helena Nelson runs the entire operation, fielding countless
submissions, publishing several titles every year, maintaining a lively
blog and website, and editing and producing Sphinx. In a right and proper world, these would be the people getting
six-figure bonuses every year.